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| Manuel Pellegrini |
City's barnstorming start to the English soccer season,
producing five straight wins, is in danger of becoming a fading memory after
consecutive defeats by West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur allowed Manchester
United to knock them off the top of the table.
Those two defeats were preceded by a jolting home loss to
Juventus in City's Champions League opener, but Pellegrini is convinced the
club will recover and soon triumph in Europe's blue riband competition.
"I am sure that Manchester City will win the Champions
League in the future because the whole club works well," the Chilean was
quoted as saying in the Manchester Evening News.
"We are younger than the teams who normally win the
Champions League over the last 10 years. Our team has only arrived in the last
few years and we are improving every season."
City's huge transfer spending to become established as one
of the Premier League powerhouses has not translated into any great impact on
the European stage. They reached the last 16 of the Champions League in the
past two seasons and failed to progress beyond the group stage in the previous
two attempts.
While focused on improving that record, Pellegrini says the
Champions League should not be prioritised at the expense of getting their
domestic form back on track.
"Being champions of Europe must not be an obsession
here. Manchester United, in the whole period of Alex Ferguson, when he was the
best manager in the club's history, only won the Champions League twice in 27
years," Pellegrini said.
Source. supersport.com
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